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Exactly a year ago, when Charles Michel from the European Union was heavily courting Armenia the present writer noted in an article entitled EU Expansionism in the South Caucasus: “It seems that the EU, blocked in Ukraine after it provoked the disintegration of the Ukrainian state (in 2014), is now hell bent on expanding into…
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On 6 July President Putin made a significant speech in the Kremlin’s St Catherine Hall. Putin was meeting with the leaders of the State Duma and the heads of party factions of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Here are the important sections of the Russian President’s speech: “The so-called collective West led by the United States has been extremely aggressive towards Russia for decades. Our proposals to create a system of equal…
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The following question and answer session with myself, mainly on the economic war, was published in Russian in Eurasia Expert on 17 June. Here is the full interview in English: Q: China and India reduce the effectiveness of Western sanctions against Moscow by increasing purchases of Russian energy resources. Is it likely that more and…
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The British media inform us that ”Britain is co-ordinating with its allies on a potential plan to send warships to the Black Sea port of Odesa to offer a protective escort to ships exporting Ukrainian grain. Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said yesterday he had discussed the creation of such a ‘protective corridor’ from Odesa…
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introduction by President Erdogan of Republic of Turkiye Talk by Pat Walsh on Karabakh war page 173 and Q&A page 190.
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It is the 30th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It is a pertinent time, therefore, to ask the question: Was there ever a more pointless and extravagant waste of life than General Secretary Gorbachev’s administrative massacre of over 130 civilians in Baku on the night of 19/20 January 1990? Vladimir Zubok’s recent…
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There have been myriad accounts of what’s going on in Kazakhstan from various analysts. What is most noticeable is the way in which observers have attempted to shoe-horn the course of events in that country into parameters that reflect the various authors’ existing disposition or political orientation. The Chinese have a description of such phenomena…
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Here is the text of the speech I gave at Chelsea Town Hall, London, on 5 November 2021, to commemorate the fallen heroes of Azerbaijan and celebrate the Liberation of Karabakh. The Gala event, including a great range of musical talent from Azerbaijan, was organised by the Azerbaijanis in the UK. Axsaminiz xeyir hormetli xanimlar…
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There are many forgotten aspects of the Great War of 1914. One is the fact that Britain violated Greek neutrality because the Greek government resisted its pressure to join its war on Germany and Ottoman Turkey, and then invaded neutral Greece, overthrew its government, and installed a puppet government which declared war on the Ottoman…
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Two poems relevant to today’s events in Kabul: British Imperialist poet Rudyard Kipling’s Recessional (1897), warning that all empires are temporary and the greatest of military powers will be, one day, only dust. Second, Ireland’s national poet Thomas Davis’ Ballad of Freedom (1842) in praise of Dost Mohammad and Afghan resistance to the British, Algerian…
